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Politics, War & Security

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As both politicians and historians mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.

Sam Klug

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War & Security

Arts in Society, War & Security

The Rhetoric of Cowardice

Recovering its usage.

Kyle Williams

Global Justice, Politics

Ever-Crumbling Walls

The identity of a nation lies in its borders.

Santiago Zabala, Søren Tinning

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

"Does Torture Work?" Is an Immoral Question

It's like asking if slavery is good economic policy.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, War & Security

Prosecuting Torture Isn't Politics, It's Human Rights

Why do so many legal theorists think prosecuting would be undemocratic?

Adam Hosein

Politics, War & Security

Brazil's Era of Possibility

A Berkeley radical returns to his native Brazil after the Berlin Wall's fall.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Politics, War & Security

The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

Elaine Scarry, Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, War & Security

Jim Morrison, Where the Bombs Don’t Fly

American rock stars have the same black dots as French poets, Italian artists, Polish composers, and flamboyant British novelists.

Jackson Bliss

Global Justice, War & Security

The Haifa Mob

On July 19 I joined a licensed march in Haifa against the Gaza war.

Noam Chayut

War & Security

Syria in Revolt

Understanding the unthinkable war

Sadiq J. Al-Azm

Global Justice, Politics

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

Assaf Sharon

Global Justice, Politics

On Human Shields

If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?

Seth Lazar

Global Justice, Politics

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

F. M. Kamm

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